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Sleeping Dogs™ Definitive Edition

Sleeping Dogs™ Definitive Edition

The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. All 24 previously available DLC extensions have been integrated into the game, including the story-extending episode Year of the Snake and the horror-themed Nightmare in North Point. Alongside a wealth of new technological, audio and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive.

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The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. All 24 previously available DLC extensions have been integrated into the game, including the story-extending episode Year of the Snake and the horror-themed Nightmare in North Point. Alongside a wealth of new technological, audio and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive.

A vibrant, neon city teaming with life, Hong Kong’s exotic locations and busy streets and markets hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the notorious Triads. Play as Wei Shen – the highly skilled undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside out. You'll have to prove yourself worthy as you fight your way up the organization, taking part in brutal criminal activities without blowing your cover.

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Reviews for Sleeping Dogs™ Definitive Edition

Reviews for Sleeping Dogs™ Definitive Edition

71

Very good

arthulle

12/01/2016

A very good game, it's very addictive and enjoyable to play. I recommend if you enjoy
open world games like GTA and Saints Row, it's simular to that, but unlike those games
that are US based, Sleeping Dogs is refreshingly oriental, based in Hong Kong. With
good martial arts combat.
This is a open world game, with martial arts, crime, street racing, gambling, with
main missions, various side quests and hunting for collectibles. You don't get to use
guns till later on.
Sleeping Dogs is one of those rare games that everybody loves, and every recommend to
each other, but somehow no one has ever played it ( as far as you know).
So I picked it up during a sale after it had been sitting on my wish list for a long
time, and wow. I personally still haven't finished the main storyline because I simply
don't want it to end. I treat myself to a story mission every now and then, like a
delicious slice of cake on the weekend.
But while the story itself is quite serious, as gangsters usually are, the story does
make plenty of room for a bit of humor, and especially nods to Hong Kong action
movies.
The combat is unique and fun, the world vibrant and interesting, the characters
complex, the story great.
Please play Sleeping Dogs, so you can start recommending it to your friends who will
also wait months to actually do so, like you did.

100

Pork Bun Anyone?

Chaos78910

11/22/2016

The only game similar to GTA that isn't based in America, but Hong Kong. If you've seen any Hong Kong action films, the theme of this game fits in perfectly. With most of the action being without weapons, you fight your way with your fists (and legs) with combos and button mashing. This is truly a diversified GTA where the culture is different and you get to see the beautiful city of Hong Kong in many variations of weather including street vendors and night life. My favorite of them all is the Pork Bun people keep speaking of in game: "a man who never eats pork bun is never a whole man!" In the Definitive Edition, all the DLC content is included, even though not directly related to the main story, it is a nice addition with a few hours of added gameplay. Some instances the game becomes a bit glitchy where the AI gets stuck, but can easily be overlooked as it doesn't happen that often, and quite entertaining when they drive circles and block off traffic. The story puts you right into the action and you just do what you need to do to stay alive. Grab a pork bun when you can, makes you enjoy the game a bit more.

90

A great open world experience with an even better story

apeachynarwhale

10/10/2016

One of my favorite games. While a relatively quick story, the story about the undercover cop is a great one, and the nice open world allows for lots of fun to be had with the citizens of Hong Kong. The fighting mechanics are pretty good, and most missions are difficult but not at all impossible. A good action adventure game that I would (and have) recommend to all my friends.

60

Interactive list of chores

mattimonja

10/01/2016

The first impression of Sleeping Dogs is great. The city of Hong Kong is a new and exotic setting not often featured in games. Crowd density is impressive, and it is exciting to dive into the world of the Chinese triads. However, very soon all this is revealed to be a thin fa?ade masking a lacking experience.
The city is a hollow husk and nowhere near of being a living, breathing place. The people forming the crowds just are there, doing nothing but walking and driving from nowhere to nowhere, existing only to briefly react to the player character if one gets too close to them. The city is large enough, but has only a few types of different activities, and nothing to discover - almost everything is clearly marked on a map where a destination can be selected to get a guiding HUD to follow. There are some random events that spontaneously occur when traveling around the city, but these are few and far between, and so structured and gamified that they fail to improve the immersion of the game world. Instead of stumbling upon a drunk person causing trouble to shop keeper by happenstance, you get displayed a yellow exclamation point, and a notification telling you to drag the drunk patron away, and a warning message if you wander too far away from the event. When the exact same event then occurs a few other times, it becomes clear it's not the city being a place with people living in it, but the game being a game packed with busywork.
The gameplay is divided into a few distinct types of activities. There's beating people up, driving fast, shooting or occasionally driving while shooting. The activities are compartmentalised into missions so that different things to do aren't mixed up with one another. The player is able to pick what they like and focus on missions they find entertaining. Missions are picked from a map screen, that displays what and where is currently available, differentiating between different types of missions. After selecting a mission, completing it is a matter of traveling to the location and performing the given strictly defined activity. Then it's a time to pick another mission, possibly after viewing a cutscene that thrusts the story forward. This fundamental structure makes the game feel like a checklist of chores - open the map screen, pick what you want to do next, and go do it. There's not much else to the game. The clear division of missions into different types of activities makes the missions predictable and repetitive. There are too few surprises and dynamically evolving scenarios.
The game is made competently enough, the setting is interesting, the controls adequate, all the basic construction blocks are in place for a good game to be built from them - only the shooting is numb and could use some work. The problem is that after getting used to and gaining understanding of the mission structure, the game is very monotonous and feels more like a chore than entertainment. It's not outright bad, and could perhaps pass for a mindless activity to kill time, but it's a tough sell when there are so many actually good games one can spend the time on instead.

63

A mediocre and generic open world that happens to have an interesting setting.

heerox328

10/01/2016

Sleeping Dogs is not a good game. Even with this slight visual upgrade, the voice acting is bad, the combat is bad, the vehicle controls are bad, and the story is incoherent.
While I wanted to like this game and the premise was interesting, it just wasn't worth my time. With games like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Watch_Dogs, and Saints Row, and plenty of other amazing open world games, why should I waste my time on this generic and uninspiring mess? Square Enix should do us all a favor and put this one in the dumpster for good.